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Greek Tragedy

Quote from: Titan Q on November 18, 2018, 08:18:04 AM
The CCIW is off to a 17-5 (.773) start in men's basketball.  The WIAC is 16-6 (.727).  The team picked 3rd in the CCIW (Wheaton) beat the team picked to win the WIAC (UW-Oshkosh). 

Still early but fun to keep an eye on how these two great leagues stack up. 

As we all knew coming into 2018-19 based on returning talent, the CCIW is really loaded this year.

The WIAC was 8-0 going into the weekend too. Besides last night's Wheaton win, were there any other CCIW/WIAC matchups? There aren't a lot, usually, with Stout, Eau Claire, River Falls and La Crosse playing a lot of UMAC and MIAC games for geographical reasons.
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Titan Q

Quote from: Greek Tragedy on November 18, 2018, 08:30:46 AM
Quote from: Titan Q on November 18, 2018, 08:18:04 AM
The CCIW is off to a 17-5 (.773) start in men's basketball.  The WIAC is 16-6 (.727).  The team picked 3rd in the CCIW (Wheaton) beat the team picked to win the WIAC (UW-Oshkosh). 

Still early but fun to keep an eye on how these two great leagues stack up. 

As we all knew coming into 2018-19 based on returning talent, the CCIW is really loaded this year.

The WIAC was 8-0 going into the weekend too. Besides last night's Wheaton win, were there any other CCIW/WIAC matchups? There aren't a lot, usually, with Stout, Eau Claire, River Falls and La Crosse playing a lot of UMAC and MIAC games for geographical reasons.

I think this is the complete list of remaining CCIW/WIAC games...

Nov. 27 - North Park at UW-Oshkosh
Nov. 28 - UW-Stevens Point at Augustana
Dec. 1 - UW-Oshkosh at Elmhurst
Dec. 12 - Wheaton at UW-Platteville
Dec. 22 - Carroll at UW-La Crosse
Dec. 29 - IWU vs UW-Stevens Point (at Cal Lutheran)

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Gregory Sager

"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle." -- George Orwell

AndOne

Last evening within The Hangar in Naperville the North Central & Heidelberg Repertory Companies combined to stage a production of the 2 act play entitled Shooting Ineptitude.
Sadly, the final product resembled something akin to a train wreck. The only question being whether the North Central or Heidelberg players would ultimately be able to better engineer their way around several obstacles, and arrive at the end of the line with most of their baggage still intact.

Upon completion of Act I, the Heidelberg players had successfully delivered their lines only 28.1% of the time, including 21.1% from the outer limits of the stage. The totals for those from North Central were even more appalling to the tune of 27.3% overall and 8.3% from afar. Act II numbers for Heidelberg were 32.4% and 26.7% while North Central posted success rates of 44.1% and 18.2%.

An early 13-3 second Act flourish by the local players provided the impetus for their company to ultimately deliver a winning performance with the judges totals favoring the locals by a 68-57 margin.
The final totals found NC shooting 35.8% and 13.0% with HU finishing at 30.3% and 23.5%. Rather than superior on-the-ball defense, especially perimeter wise, the low totals were more the result of ineptitude by both companies.
Ultimately, much of NCC's victory was attributable to the fact they limited their TOs to 7 compared with HU's 12, had 6 blocks vs 3 for HU, and Made 6 steals compared to 3 for HU.

Matt Cappelletti, a double-double of 19 points and 11 rebounds. Matt is in tremendous shape, and I look for him to have a very good season.

Blaise Meredith, 10 points, 8 rebounds. 2 breakaway slams after steals.

Connor Raridon, 9 points, 11 boards, 3/0 A/TO, 2 blocks and a steal.

Aiden Chang, 9 points, 5 rebounds.

Jack Bronec, 6 points on 3/6 shooting, and 5 boards in 16 pretty solid minutes of action.

Newcomer Aaron Jones, 6 points on 2/3 from downtown in the 2nd half, incl one to give NCC it's largest lead.


iwu70

Great win for Wheaton.  Wow, that is some line for Francis.  Unstoppable.  Indeed, "pretty good."  :)

'70


crusader_nation

The performance by Francis last night was something else. It's already been mentioned, but Francis has shown a new willingness to drive to the basket this season, so far, rather than settle for the long distance 3. It's paying off, and we'll have to see how defenders respond.

Francis' 45-point performance last night tied him for #5 on Wheaton's all-time single game scoring list (tied with himself vs. Elmhurst on 12/9/17 and Marv Johnson vs. Morris Harvey on 1/30/48).

Francis has scored 97 points over 3 games, moving him up to #26 in Wheaton's career scoring list with 1407 points in 54 games.

At this pace, it's likely that Francis could end up as Wheaton's #3 all-time scorer, behind only Mel Peterson and Kent Raymond, and Francis will have achieved that in just 3 seasons with Wheaton.

kenoshamark

Carthage destroyed Finlandia this afternoon 112 to 68. 

https://athletics.carthage.edu/boxscore.aspx?id=6305&path=mbball

I wasn't expecting much from this matchup since Finlandia lost by 10 to the team Carthage beat by 27 on Friday night.   Not sure how either of these games was really productive in preparing for league play or finding out what your weaknesses really are.

Carthage launched 37 treys of their 71 shots making almost 50% from behind the arc and just shy of 60% overall. 

Couple observations:
1) Although everyone Carthage put on the floor after the starters looked decent, they are, in my estimation, going to struggle with depth until Perry comes back and until the other guard transfer (Cook) is healthy.  There was no sighting of Perry on the bench so maybe this injury is serious.
2) Preston Laketa can really shoot the ball from deep.  Again, there wasn't the same kind of defense played today that he will see in the league, but he is a legit scoring threat from outside the arc.
3) With Baltimore, Kedrowski and Laketa, they have three strong offensive threats and Johnson gives them a post presence.  Canady is not an offensive threat at all and doesn't really touch the ball much.  Kedrowski is the primary ball handler.
4) Canady seems to be a decent ball handler and he did make some nice passes....just seems like letting him bring the ball up and allowing Kedrowski to work off screens to get his shot off would be better than Kedrowski having to bring the ball up and then get into the offense.
5) The first two off the bench were Polgase and Brett Czerak.  Both played well and shot the ball from deep (but then who didn't today). 
6) Finlandia was just too undersized (three starters were 160 pounds or less) and young.   The majority of their points came from freshmen and sophomores. 
7) Carthage plays Washington University next week so that should provide the type of test that will allow Carthage to better prepare for the conference opener against IWU in two weeks.

AndOne

For a variety of reasons, you sometimes have no choice but to schedule a game against less than standard competition. Many schools have been there. On 11/27, North Central will have the same opportunity to dominate the Lions. However, rather than doing so at home, the Cardinals will have to endure an 8 hour bus trip to the northern most environs of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. How long before those endless views of frozen tundra get old? 😏 ☹️ 😴

AndOne

Double header action again next Sat., 11/24 at North Central.

At noon, Cardinal football hosts a 2nd round playoff game vs, Bethel, MN. 🏈
At 5:00, the basketball Cardinals welcome Alma, MI in a game originally scheduled for a 2:00 start. 🏀

AndOne

Cradle of Coaches? 🤔 😉

This season finds three former North Central head assistant coaches under Todd Raridon piloting Division III programs.

1. Chad Murray - NCC 2004-2009. Became Head Coach at Cornell, IA 2009-2017. Now in his second year heading Pacific Lutheran.

2. Todd Kelly - NCC 2009-2014. Beginning his 5th year as Head Coach at IL Institute of Technology.

3. Steve Schweer - NCC 2016-2018. Now a rookie top man at Illinois College.

Raridon owns 514 victories, 12th among active D3 coaches, and 40th all-time in D3, so he is obviously someone you can learn a thing or two from.

Mr. Ypsi

Quote from: AndOne on November 18, 2018, 09:55:23 PM
For a variety of reasons, you sometimes have no choice but to schedule a game against less than standard competition. Many schools have been there. On 11/27, North Central will have the same opportunity to dominate the Lions. However, rather than doing so at home, the Cardinals will have to endure an 8 hour bus trip to the northern most environs of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. How long before those endless views of frozen tundra get old? 😏 ☹️ 😴

Much of it is a gorgeous trip in the summer.  Not so much in the winter.  And yes, it is already full-on winter at Finlandia.

WUPHF

Quote from: Mr. Ypsi on November 18, 2018, 11:44:13 PM
And yes, it is already full-on winter at Finlandia.
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On behalf of everyone currently living in the Midwest, we figured as much...

Pat Coleman

Quote from: AndOne on November 18, 2018, 09:55:23 PM
For a variety of reasons, you sometimes have no choice but to schedule a game against less than standard competition. Many schools have been there. On 11/27, North Central will have the same opportunity to dominate the Lions. However, rather than doing so at home, the Cardinals will have to endure an 8 hour bus trip to the northern most environs of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. How long before those endless views of frozen tundra get old? 😏 ☹️ 😴

Once you get north of Wausau, stop looking out the window. And bring plenty of downloadable material, because the bandwidth gets pretty bad once you cross the border.
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